Introduction – Jan 21, 2021
Given their impact economically, socially and in many other respects, then if lockdowns are failing to contain the rise in Covid-19 cases then it’s fair to say that they are doing more harm than good.
Jobs are in jeopardy, businesses are being put at risk; education, health care services and travel are all being disrupted for measures to contain a pandemic that don’t work.
So why are governments around the world still imposing draconian lockdowns?
Or is the supposed “pandemic” simply being used as a pretext for the imposition of more authoritarian rule, globally? Ed.
England’s lockdown fails to suppress rise in Covid transmissions
Clive Cookson – FT.com Jan 21, 2021
The lockdown in England has failed so far to suppress coronavirus transmission, according to the latest survey, which indicated a “worrying” possible uptick in infections.
The closely watched React-1 study led by Imperial College London concluded that prevalence of the virus, known as Sars-Cov-2, was “very high with no evidence of decline”. The finding was based on the analysis of 142,900 nose and throat swabs from a representative sample of the English population between January 6 and 15.
The researchers estimated that the reproduction number R, which measures the average number of people one individual infects, was between 0.94 and 1.15, with a central estimate of 1.04 — meaning the rate of infection is rising slowly.
Paul Elliott, one of the co-leaders of the study, said his team would continue to monitor closely data that pointed to “worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections”.
Prof Elliott warned that unless infections were brought down, the NHS would struggle to cope. “If prevalence continues at the high rate we are seeing, then hospitals will continue to be put under immense pressure, and more and more lives will be lost.”
The study estimated that 1.58 per cent of the population in England was infected, an increase of more than 50 per cent since the previous round of testing from November 25 to December 3. Prevalence was highest in London, at 2.8 per cent, more than twice the level in the last testing round.
“More authoritarian rule”. They aren’t doing it for the fun of it or for the sake of it. Writers and commentators on here and elsewhere need to see motives beyond the obvious & excuses in the fake news. At least try and move beyond simple reactions.
I’m not sure there are any ‘covid transmissions’ that need to be ‘supressed.’ Following the increasingly severe lockdowns in the last few months of 2020 there has been a progressive increase in deaths: eg ten thousand extra in the month of December: the price of cancelling Xmas. Stress is a killer, lockdowns do kill – mainly the oldies.
Let’s see, Imperial College, a veritable clown car of compromised shills with zero credibility at this point, has again used horrifically flawed data from a diagnostic test which is not a diagnostic test so, thus, has an accuracy rate of zero as far as reliably detecting a virus which has never actually been isolated and purified, to continue to shamelessly peddle fear and outlandish lies via criminally corrupt treasonous government and a tightly controlled pathologically lying corporate press. And a portion of the gullible idiots who make up the population still actually buy into this rancid tripe.
It’s time to say goodbye to germ theory and hello to terrain theory. Arguing about infection rates is like accepting the Ptolemaic solar system for the purpose of refuting someone who holds to a similar, if modified variant.
Old ideas die when their proponents die. Hopefully this new paradigm will gain traction rapidly in the coming years. I don’t think msm articles that pander to prevailing misconceptions do us much good, even if they appear to “throw us a bone” every now and then.
Ten thousand deaths increase in one month?
That’s a lot!
How many per year, normally, are there in Britain?
In Sweden, according to a commentator at ”Steigan”, showing statistics from ”Statista”, if I remember correctly, overall deathtoll was one of the lowest in ten years, per 4:th of December; 87k.
I realize that after NK info, this could go up, during Christmas.
Anyway, the rate is between 85-90k, roughly.